sectioning
"sectioning" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sectioning” is uncommon English (frequency #84,727 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,727
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A division into sections.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sectioning · sectioning · English
sectioning · rank #84,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,727
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH SeaTac
Nearest frequency peer: SeaTac (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “sectioning”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Scobie
Scobie
15,280 corpus weight
- Scudamore
Scudamore
15,278 corpus weight
- SeaTac
SeaTac
15,276 corpus weight
- sectioning
sectioning
15,274 corpus weight
- selloff
selloff
15,271 corpus weight
- semiannual
semiannual
15,270 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sectioning” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sectioning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sectioning” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sectioning is uncommon English at frequency #84,727 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sectioning, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is sectioning, spelled S-E-C-T-I-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A division into sections.
- 2An instance of a person being sectioned.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sectioning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: segmentation
Nevertheless, some work reports that black women are overrepresented, comprising up to half of the sectionings […]
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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